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14″H x 6″D x ~6″W – Raku-fired ceramic – 2018
I made this set for a dear friend of mine.

25″ H x 12″ W x 10″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1997
This sculpture was presented at my solow show at the First Canadian Place. It is a social commentary of our time. I did not think that it would be sold. It did.
It seemed that this lonely figure touched something in the viewers.

The tallest was 24” – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1975
What would have you done with a 30″, 24″ & 18″tall 5″dia clay cylinders? I have bent them!

Approx. 8″H x 4″W x 6″D – Raku fired ceramic – 1998
I had Georgia O’Keeffe in my head when I was making this somewhat erotic fantasy flower sculpture. It was mounted on a 1/4″ chrome rod.

25″H x 12″W x 9″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1996
I wanted to depict the last meeting of Jesus and Judas. This is the kiss that will give Jesus away.

24″W x 10″D x 15″H – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1997
I was thinking of Copernicus as he was constantly monitoring the ‘heaven’.

26″L x 11″W x 8″H – Terracotta – 1996
The beauty of the female body always captivates me. With the works ‘On The Pillows’ and ‘In The Pillows’ I wanted to show the curvaceousness of the female body among the fullness of the pillows.

26″ height – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1998
Don’t we all feel the same way sometimes…

26″H x 10″W x 11″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1986
Poor Jonah, he knows that his mission was in vain, but he had to do it.
I could relate to him quite a few times. But that is life…
I do not know who bought this sculpture, it is somewhere in the USA.

25″H x 13″D x 9″W – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1989
One of my most respected prophets is Jonah.
He was so human … as he wanted to run away from his mission. He knew that God will not carry through with His threats because He loved his “children”. Jonah wanted to hide but he could not.
So, do you think that you can?… I’m telling you it is smelly in the belly of a whale.

24″H x 6″W x 8″D – Raku fired ceramic – 1994

ceramic scultpures — 24″H x 6″W x 8″D – Raku fired ceramic – 1994

24″ x 6″ x 8″ – Raku fired ceramic – 1994 **(SOLD)**

26” tall – Raku fired ceramic – 2006
This sculpture was made for the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution of October 23, 1956. It was trampled by the Russian tanks, ‘as the West was sitting on its hand’. The repression was coming and many had to run for their life as the old communist regime re-establish itself again.
I wanted to show that everything had to be squeezed into two suitcases.
With this work I received the Canadian Hungarian Heritage Association’s commemorating award.

27″H x 10″W x 7″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 2003
Too many jobs were lost to … the computers and to Globalization … Now even the executives are losing their jobs. Not all of them could handle the pressure and some end up on the street. If you look closely at some of the street people you will understand what I am talking about…

25″H x 7″W x 9″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1996
How strong the urge is in us to do what we are told not to do!
I wanted to show Lot in his desire to turn back, but his conscience causes him to protect himself by lifting one arm to assure that he would obey. He is, to me, one of the “most unlucky-lucky men” to survive the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah.
From his encounter (having sex) with his daughters came some of the wickedness we see today.
Would not had been better if he turned and became a pillar of salt like his wife?

32″H x 12″W x 12″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1997
Moses’ anger when he returns with the “LAW” is unparalleled to me. His raging anger powers him to destroy the TABLETS, proving that he was a human like any one of us. I wanted to show this anger…

Approx 12” – Raku Fired Ceramic – 2000
The small bronze of Gaea, I made in 1978, inspired me to make a bigger one in raku fired ceramic. A few homes here in North America and Europe have a copy of this sculpture.

24″H x 8″W x 8″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1985
I made this sculpture for one of my dear friends, Rofusz Ferenc to express my appreciation. Against his killing back pain he worked to carry through with his assignment.

26″H x 9″W x 8″D – Raku fired ceramic – 1997
It is one of the three kings. Who knows were it is?

26″ H x 10″ W x 11″ D – Raku fired ceramic – 1994 **(SOLD)**
I originally made this sculpture as I was affected by the Yugoslavian war. The war that ripped that country so many parts. The mothers on all sides are loosing their sons and husbands. I have some friends who are Bosnian wife and Croatian husband. They left the Yugoslavia due to the hatred that went on even within families.
How could we, as human beings, do that to each other? Her watery blue eyes tell a lot…

26″ H x 10″ W x 11″ D – Raku fired ceramic – 1994

26″H x 24″W x 18″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1997
One of my younger friends is an Olympic canoeist. Due to twelve years of hard training his body is one of the most perfect I have ever seen. There is a beauty in his fully toned muscles and I consider this work one of my best in this type of sculpture.
He posed for three sessions with four to six hours for each session.

25″H x 8″W x 6″D – Raku fired ceramic – 1995
I wanted to show the moment when Orpheus turns back just before they, he and his wife Eurudike, would leave the underworld. How many times it happens that we do something we not supposed to? He just wanted to make sure that his beloved wife is in fact following him. But that was his mistake.

26″H x 8″W x 9″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1994
The punishment for his love of humans will be horrendous, but he is doing it anyway. I show him as he successfully takes the fire from the goods and gives it to men. In a previous wood carving, I show him chained to the mount of Caucasus with Hercules in the front, shooting down Zeus’ eagle, to end Prometheus’ torture…

24” tall – Raku fired ceramic – 1984
He was a Hungarian Jewish poet and because of his beliefs was taken to a work camp in the last few months of the WWII, as a German supported fascist government took over in Hungary in March 1944. His frozen body was found at the road side in the winter of 1945. The poem fragments in his frozen coat made him recognized and these ‘Fragments’ are one of the pearls of Hungarian poetry.
What a loss to humanity his unforgivable death.

12″H x 14″W x 10″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1976
What would have you done with a 18″tall 5″dia cylinder? I have bent it!

26″H x 6″w x 6″D – Oxidized Terracotta – 1997 **(SOLD)**
I feel that half of the human race are discriminated against. This half is the female segment of our population. Until it is preached from the pulpit that Eva was the guilty one taking the fruit of knowledge, it will not be equality between man and woman. I feel that the women are a better development of the human species.
As the joke goes: God was not happy with the first prototype, Adam. God made a second modified version, one with more passion, more understanding, more knowledge…
that is what MEN can not swallow… so the male dominated religion/dogma/church made a story where Eva is Reckless, by taking the fruit of knowledge, instead of the Brave…

20″H x 12″W x 8″D – Raku fired ceramic – 1984

20″H x 12″W x 8″D – Raku fired ceramic – 1984
This raku fired ceramic sculpture was selected to be shown at the International Raku Show at Newport, Rhode Island. I went to the opening with my wife and friends. I felt really good about my work between all those extraordinary raku expressions.
A few copies of this voluptuous Lady had been sold…and if you want a copy… let me know!

20″H x 12″W x 8″D – Raku fired ceramic – 1984 **(SOLD)**

25″H x 24″W x 9″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 2000
When I was approached by the Canadian-Hungarian “The Thousand Year Committee” to participate in a celebration of the thousand year anniversary of the crowning of the first king of Hungary, I decided to show the two sides of the man: Vajk – Istvan.
I don’t think it was an easy change from Shamanism to Christianity… so I don’t believe that Istvan was a happy king as he had to eliminate his own friends and relatives.
But time proved him right. Most probably, the pagan Magyars would have crumbled under the Christian pressure during the past one thousand years…

25″H x 24″W x 9″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 2000
This is the same person: St. Istvan, but before he was baptized in the year 1000.
His father Bela, the supreme Magyar at that time, had realized that the ‘barbaric’ Magyars could not stand the pressure of Christianity. He arranged with the Pope at Rome to make the transformation. So Vajk, his son, was baptized and become the first Magyar/Hungarian king, St. Istvan.

25″ H x 29″ W x 14″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1997
I always wanted to make an angel. But the one who is in a stress, the one who had to be on time before the sacrifice of Isaac…

25″ H x 29″ W x 14″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1997

20″ W x 27″ H – Raku fired ceramic – 2011
One of Solomon’s wise decision.
The elders got what they wanted to Susanna to get. They got stoned!

12″L x 6″W – rakufired ceramic – 2022 **SOLD**

25″H x 7″W x 9″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 2003
The “CRY”, Nolde’s painting made a very strong impression on me, as it did on almost everyone who has seen it. I could feel the pain he had expressed.
Today the pain is the same, nothing has changed. “Do you know where your kids are tonight?”

18″ long – Raku-fired ceramic on black marble box – 2018

18″H x 24″W x 7″D – raku-fired ceramic – 2017
For a long time I wanted to make a lyre mainly because of two things. One,Leonard Cohen’s song the “Hallelujah”. I have heard it many-many times with different interpreters as… “…there was a sacred cord that David plied and pleased the Lord…” and the second one is a Hungarian poem which ‘sings’ about the 500 Welsh bards sent to the stake by Edward I of England for failing to sing his praises at a banquet in Montgomery Castle.
This poem was written by Arany Janos in 1857. He was asked to write a poem of praise for the visit of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, and that was the poem he written. I should not say it was not appreciated by the king.
I know the two are not even distantly related but I had to make ‘The Holy Lyre’ and this sculpture is the result.
If you ever worked with clay then you know how difficult could be to make a standing sculpture without an armature not to collapse into its footprint, but that is just the beginning. After it stands and finished… how would it dry? Would it crack then? So I put my faith into… I do not know what… and it dried just fine.
The bisque firing is mostly OK if the sculpture got that far, although placing it into the kiln needs very delicate handling. After glazing and place it into a hot electrical kiln is the most trying part. I was thinking a long time how to place it into the kiln. I could not handle the lyre with tongs because it would disintegrate under the pressing metal and also I would not even know where to grab it anyway. Finally I figured out how to do it.
I placed the sculpture on it back on a flat ceramic tile and together placed them into the kiln. I was listening, kind of waiting for some cracking sound after I closed the lid of the kiln as the temperature was rushing from approx. 1600F, when I placed the sculpture into the kiln, to the final temperature 2000F, but there was not any noise. The last difficult action was to take it out of the kiln and place it into sawdust. The hole firing took may be 45 minutes with the reduction at the end.
When I opened the lid of the reduction box and saw the unbroken finished piece I was overjoyed.

25″H x 8″W x 12″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 2000
I still remember my grandmother, as she was leaning on her cane…and one day I will leaning on it for balance. That experience inspired this sculpture.

25″H x 8″W x 12″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 2000

26″H x 9″W x 12″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1997
Everyone has a Thomas in him or her!
I wanted to show his astonishment in seeing his master alive.
Knowing myself, I would have done the same, my engineering background trained me to analyze, question, synthesize the unknown. Only faith, blind faith can expect the miracles…

26″H x 9″W x 12″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 1997

25″H x 9″W x 9″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 2003

20″ x 12″ x 8″ – Raku fired ceramic – 2015 **(SOLD)**

AIR MUSICIANS

I am one of those who cannot resist imitating the musician as they interpret their music. I made a few of these ‘Air Musician’ as I was inspired by Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Aladar Pege, James Galway…

Don’t you sing in the shower or play on the ‘air piano’ when you listen to Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto # 1 in B Flat Minor? If not, then put on the record, tape or CD and close your eyes. Do not be surprise if your hands start to move… I barely can type now as I am listening right now his music. These are the moments I wanted to capture in the series of ‘Playing on the air instruments’.

(25″H x 9″W x 9″D | Raku Fired Ceramic | 2003) In the spring of 2003 I was fortunate to attend Joshua’s violin concert at the Roy Thomson Hall – Toronto. As many of us sing in the shower or play on an “air guitar”, when I listen to great violin music, I am playing on my “air violin”. This overwhelming great feeling of Joshua’s playing made me make this sculpture. That was his effect on me…